Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Bark

This Chocolate and Peanut Butter Swirl Bark is my creation for The Recipe Redux theme for the month of February which is “your favorite chocolate match”.

“Favorite Chocolate Matches: Does your chocolate need a friend? This month’s posting will be after Valentine’s Day, so you may have a bit of extra chocolate around. What’s your favorite chocolate match? Be it traditional peanut butter or something more exotic like cayenne + chocolate. Show us your favorite healthy chocolate combo recipe.”

Hands down, my favorite chocolate match has to be with peanut butter like these Healthy Peanut Butter Cups which I posted back in 2013 (over two years ago) and in the last couple of years have taken over like wildfire on Pinterest (not my recipe, but the peanut butter cup recipe in general).

I, of course, didn’t create or invent the Peanut Butter cups idea or recipe, Reese’s did, but I think it’s funny how they are a standard recipe on almost everyone’s blog now.

It has to take first prize for food trends on Pinterest lol!

Anyway, I used that same basic recipe and instead of making “cups” with them, I made a chocolate bark.

Ingredients

For the peanut butter swirl

For the chocolate

1/2 cup organic raw cacao powder

1/2 cup organic maple syrup

1/2 cup organic cacao butter

Directions

Step 1

Melt the cacao butter for the entire recipe at the same time (total amount 3/4 cup). After it's melted, divide for each part of the recipe (example: 1/2 for the chocolate mixture and 1/4 for the peanut butter mixture).

Melting the cacao butter: - "raw" option 1: put the cacao butter in a small bowl and add to a dehydrator at 115 degrees until it melts - non "raw" option 2: put it in a bowl over a pot of water on the lowest heat on the stove until it melts - non "raw" option 3: put it in an oven-safe bowl in the oven for a few minutes at the lowest setting until it melts, keeping a close eye on it

Add all the ingredients for the peanut butter swirl to a small bowl and stir until well combined. Set aside.

Add all the ingredients for the chocolate to a small bowl and stir until well combined.

Line a square 8 x 8 baking dish with parchment paper and pour in the chocolate mixture.

Pour the peanut butter mixture on top of the chocolate mixture in three horizontal rows from left to right.

Using the tip of a knife, swirl the peanut butter mixture into the chocolate.

Put the dish into the freezer for approximately 1 hour, or until it becomes hard.

Remove the parchment paper from the baking dish, then the chocolate bark from the parchment paper and break into bite size pieces.

Store in the freezer until ready to serve because it will get soft if left out at room temperature.

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